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measurement errors has shifted. Surprisingly, we do not find evidence that the size of output gap revisions has decreased over … time; on the contrary, they seem to have increased. But the fraction of measurement errors due to omitted contemporaneous … information has declind. This suggests that while the OECD's accuracy in output gap measurement has failed to improve, its …
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How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
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We examine the impact of large-scale asset purchases of government bonds on real GDP and the CPI in the United Kingdom and the United States with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data from 2009 M3 to 2013 M5. We identify an asset purchase shock with sign and zero restrictions. In contrast to...
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